White Rhino Feminized Seeds

White Rhino is an indica-dominant feminized hybrid, 80% indica and 20% sativa, with an earthy, musky scent and hints of hashish. Green House Seeds bred it in Amsterdam from its White Widow and a selected Afghan indica, and calls it one of its old-school strains. It is a medium-sized plant that grows wider rather than taller, and it flowers in about 8 to 9 weeks indoors. Green House puts its THC at about 20%, and Leafly’s strain data puts it at about 21%.

History & lineage

White Rhino belongs to what Green House Seeds calls its White Family, the strains built on its White Widow. Green House describes it as a breeding project between its own White Widow, itself a Brazilian × South Indian cross, and a selected Afghan indica. Leafly names the second parent as a North American indica and says the strain is said to descend from cultivars from Afghanistan, Brazil and India.

The family has a Cup record. White Widow, one of its parents, won the 1995 High Times Cannabis Cup (Green House’s entry). A year later White Rhino placed second in the Bio Cup at the 1996 High Times Cannabis Cup, again as Green House’s entry. The line has carried on, too: Sweet Seeds used White Rhino as one of the three parents of Cream Caramel, alongside Blue Black and Maple Leaf Indica.

Aroma & flavour

Green House describes the scent as earthy and musky, with some notes reminiscent of hashish, and the taste as sweet and fruity. For White Rhino as a strain, Leafly users most often report earthy, woody and pungent flavours, followed by sweet and skunk. Green House names myrcene, alpha-pinene and beta-caryophyllene as its most expressed terpenes, and Leafly’s lab data also leads with myrcene, then pinene and terpinolene. Our terpene guide covers what each of those compounds adds to a smell.

Effects, as users report them

These are Leafly users’ reports for White Rhino as a strain, most common first. Green House itself describes an intense, long-lasting stoned effect, and says White Rhino is less strong than White Widow and more relaxing. Dry mouth and dry eyes are the downsides users mention most; smaller numbers report dizziness, paranoia or a headache. How it feels depends on the person and the dose, so if you are new to cannabis, start with a small amount.

Growing White Rhino

White Rhino is a feminized photoperiod plant, so it stays in vegetative growth until the light drops to 12 hours a day indoors, or until the days shorten outdoors. Expect about 8 to 9 weeks of flowering indoors, and outdoors in the Northern Hemisphere Green House says it is generally ready in the first week of October. Our seed-to-harvest timeline shows how those weeks fit a whole grow.

Green House describes a medium-sized plant with short internodes that prefers to grow wider rather than taller; as a rough guide, plants run about 80–180 cm (2.6–5.9 ft). Green House calls it very good for sea of green and screen of green setups; our guide to SCROG explains how a screen spreads a wide plant into an even canopy. Leafly rates it a moderate grow. Green House gives indoor yields of about 550–900 g/m² (about 1.8–2.9 oz/ft²) and outdoor plants about 750–1,200 g (about 26–42 oz) each. It files White Rhino under its tropical-and-Mediterranean and moderate-and-continental climate zones. Dense buds hold moisture, so keep the air moving in late flower, and judge when to harvest by the trichomes rather than the calendar.

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